Potter v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
4
states following
September 1993
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“filing does not commence an action in New York. Rather, service of a summons on respondent equals commencement of the action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of BBR
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.